Steve here.
I make the internet pretty. I tell my kids I want to be a rock star when I grow up. A critic once said I obsess over specificity.
By day, a large tech company pays me to code interfaces. I advocate for digital accessibility and beauty. By night I rock with vigor and make trippy art.
Selected Work
- 15 Years of cmu.edu I designed and coded every iteration of cmu.edu and corresponding templates from 2007 to 2022. Millions of visitors. My influence lives there to this day.
- The Dell XPS Relaunch I implemented the online experience for Dell's embargoed global XPS relaunch. It sold out in two countries and made national tech news.
- Accessibility Standards Author at Carnegie Mellon, where they still live on the university site. Practice lead at Dell.
- Experience Design Summit I co-chaired Dell's global summit on experience design.
- Accessible Image Gallery A CSS Grid gallery built from JSON, designed for both screen readers and eyeballs.
- Books for Manifest Ministries I design and build books for a nonprofit teaching ministry. Cover, type, and layout.
- Patent Pending U.S. patent pending for a media file retrieval method I co-invented at Dell.
Personal Music, faith, n'at.
- Steve Chab Band. Weird, pretty rock music. Unusual riffs and rhythms. Poetic lyrics. Hear it on Bandcamp.
- Broken Images, the chapbook. Songs that started as poems, bound in an oversized book. Paint stamped by hand on salmon covers. No two alike. Read the chapbook online.
- Messianic guy from Pittsburgh. I love to celebrate the Biblical feasts, such as Passover in the spring and Sukkot in the fall. I desire to honor God in all I do.